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[Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Akka; I'd say pick one and taste it. Try them every week or so until 
they taste ripe. My peaches ripened early this year; seemingly 
overnight, they all ripened and started falling. Boy were they good this 
year. Pears are ripe next here (real soon), then apples.

Lynn
Akka Homestead wrote:
> I have a Spokane Beauty and an Arkansas Black that are bearing heavily for 
> the first time this year.  I read that the AB is harvested in late October, 
> but mine are already half red.  Do they really need 7 more weeks?  If 
> anyone else is growing these, what do your apples look like right now?  I 
> am in zone 7.  I read that SB is harvested in early October, but that site 
> is for zone 5 in Washington, wouldn't mine be ready before that since I 
> have a longer season and an earlier last frost date? I also have an old 
> fashioned red delicious.  All of the apples still have a bit of green on 
> them, but that AB is looking fine with almost maroon red apples.   If I 
> wait too long, the deer will take them in one night.  I would rather have 
> an apple that is a few days under ripe than lose them.  I know that the 
> local apple festival (in the next county) is held during the two weeks in 
> mid October. Maybe I should pick them all circa Oct 1?
> 
> Akka
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